Samuel Garland, Jr.

Samuel Garland, Jr. (16 December 1830-14 September 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Samuel Garland, Jr. was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1830, and he graduated, third in his class, from the Virginia Military Institute in 1849. He became an attorney in his hometown, and he commanded a militia company in his hometown after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. In 1861, he was given command of the 11th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army following the start of the American Civil War, and he became known for his fearlessness, which some interpreted as a death wish due to his grief over his young son's tragic death from the flu. On 23 May 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General after fighting in several major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, and he led a brigade in Daniel H. Hill's division during the Maryland Campaign. During the fight for South Mountain, Garland was mortally wounded while defending a stone wall along the Sharpsburg Road, and he died of his wounds.